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"It has become conventional wisdom that the BP-funded response to the spill was a chaotic and mismanaged affair, driven by corporate avarice, lacking in urgency, and at times willfully negligent of the problem's scope … The evidence for this is much like the imagery of heavy oiling: vivid and convincing upon first consideration, but also fragmentary, anecdotal.'' In sentences much more eloquent and much longer than mine, The New Yorker also has reached a most blasphemous conclusion about the Gulf oil spill. The Gulf appears to have survived. The federal government is not so incompetent after all. BP did a decent job cleaning up its mess. Much of what you saw...

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"It has become conventional wisdom that the BP-funded response to the spill was a chaotic and mismanaged affair, driven by corporate avarice, lacking in urgency, and at times willfully negligent of the problem's scope … The evidence for this is...

Today, one year after the offshore rig explosion and record oil spill that blotted our beaches and stained tourists' image of a perfect vacation spot, Florida appears just as welcoming as ever to drilling closer to its shoreline. Tar balls are still...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the nation's lead science agency in handling oil spills. On the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco talked to Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas about the...

Second of two parts.
County staffers are laying claim to vast amounts of cash for a Cadillac plan for improvements to conservation properties — and county commissioners have let them do it.
The proposals go far beyond the scope of what voters...

Ladies and gentleman, we have clean water in Florida. Don't let any environmentalist tell you otherwise. It is clean; it smells good; it looks good. — Barney Bishop, president of Associated Industries of FloridaBarney needs to get out of his...

Environmentalists blasted me for downplaying the threat of BP oil in the Gulf. They need to go out into their front yards and confront the real threat facing Florida. Big Grass is worse than Big Oil. Grass is destroying Florida, particularly St. Augustine...

For an imaginary moment, swim with Hueland Todd Brown as he descends into a deep, caramel-colored river, feeling his way with his hands and hoping nothing bites.
Brown lives by the Choctawhatchee, a wild river that coils through remote forests in the...

Florida's rivers are in trouble.
That's what the Orlando Sentinel found after a yearlong evaluation of some of the state's biggest and smallest, most urban and remote, cleanest and dirtiest, protected and abused rivers.
Of the 22 rivers studied, from...

Summit and Participant Media have copped the rights to a New York Times account of what went wrong on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform, the explosion that took many lives, the ensuing spill that impacted many, many more. Does that sound like a hit,

Reporter Jason Allen will depart WFTV-Channel 9 after four years to take a reporting job in Dallas. TV people usually jump at a chance to work at a Top 10 market -- Dallas is the No. 5 market; Orlando is No. 19. Allen will report for KTVT, the CBS owned-and-o

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Patrick Murphy, an environmental services executive who helped clean up last summer’s offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, announced on Tuesday he will run against South Florida Republican Congres

Florida's junior U.S. senator announced Monday that he wouldn't be voting for the stop-gap spending bills that Congress keeps trotting out to run the federal government for another few weeks at a time. Those bills have been averaging about $2 billion worth of

The group that defeated Amendment 4, now known as FreeMarketFlorida.org released its latest video this morning targeting federal environmental standards for water quality in Florida. Ryan Houck, the group's leader and only paid staffer, compares the rules to t

From the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: The ASPCA has begun taking nominations on its website for its annual Humane Awards for both animals and humans. Animals that have performed a heroic act and people who have demonstrated remark

Due to an overwhelming response from travelers of Vision's $19 seat sale, the airline is extending the promotion through Sunday, March 27, 2011 at midnight, for travel through May 21, 2011. Vision Airlines announced the $19 seat sale to celebrate the official

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard has formed contingency plans to protect U.S. waters and beaches in case of a major oil spill from drilling operations off the north coast of Cuba. Cuba has contracted with a Spanish Co

Two of televisions most entertaining dramas, "The Good Wife" on CBS and "Justified" on FX, have won the Peabody. A record 39 recipients are getting electronic media's answer to the Pulitzer Prizes. The Peabodys, which were announced today, are administered by

U.S. Senator Bob Graham will be at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University later this month to talk about the findings of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Graham, who was recently co-chairman of the commission,

George Skene/Orlando Sentinel Today is Earth Day and today we have a Q&A with Peter C.H. Pritchard, one of the world's most foremost experts on turtles and tortoises. Among his accolades, he was the 2000 Floridian of the Year by the Orlando Sentinel, was

By David Royse, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Mike Haridopolos said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that new oil drilling is needed in the Gulf of Mexico, a reversal from last year, when, in the wake of the BP spill, he sai